Improvement in whip-socket and line-holder



A SMITH. Whip-Socket and Line-Holder.

No. 196,942. Patented Nov 6,1877.

N. PETERS, PKOTO-LITNOGRAPMER. WASHINGTON, D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTUS SMITH, OF PINGKNEY, MICHIGAN. v

IMPROVEMENT IN WHlP-SOCKET AND LINE-HOLDER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,942, dated November6, 1877; application filed May 25, 1877.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that .I, AUGUSTUS SMITH, of Pinckney, in the county ofLivingston and State of Michigan, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in a Combined Whip- Socket and Line-Holder, of which thefollowing is a specification x The object I have in View is to combinein one structure a whip-socket and a line-holder that can be readilysecured to the edge of a Wagon or sleigh box; and it consists in thenovel and peculiar construction of the same, as more fullyhereinafterset forth.

Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of thewhip-socket.

In the drawing, Arepresents a flange-plate adapted to be secured to theedge of a wagon or sleigh box. On its upper surface is cast a verticalplate, A, with a curved stem, B, projecting from one side, terminatingin a skeleton- Whip-socket, B, as shown. This socket may be providedwith a spring, 0, to better hold the whip; but the latter is not anessential feature of my invention. D is a cam-lever pivoted to the innerface of the plate A, to secure the lines by pressing them against theplate A.

The entire device is cheaply made, in inalleable cast-iron, at about thecost of the cheapest form of whip-holder that is designed to be securedto the dash.

What I claim as my invention is The combined Whip-socket and line-holderA A B B D, substantially as described, as a new article of manufacture.

AUGUSTUS SMITH.

Witnesses:

H. F. EBERTS, H.'S. SPRAGUE.

